832 cxxii. EUPHOKBiACEiK (prain), [Cupei'onia. 



4. C. palustris, SL Hil. Hist. PL Rem. 245. An annual herb ; 

 stems branching, rather stout, soft, hispid upwards, 2-3 ft. high. 

 Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate or linear, acute, 

 the lowest often obtuse, margin sharply serrate, base cuneate or some- 

 what rounded, 2-6 in. long, ^-2 in, wide, medium green above, paler 

 beneath, hispid on the nerves especially on the under surface; main- 

 nerves 8-20 on each side, very prominent beneath ; petiole ^'^-f in. 

 long, hispid ; stipules triangular, acuminate or subulate, caducous. 

 Racemes 2-3 in. long; rhachis and pedicels hispid ; bracts lanceolate, 

 small. Male sepals 5, ovate-triangular, acute, glabrous or pubescent. 

 Petals 5, in African specimens always unequal, 3 larger as long as the 

 sepals, the 2 others small or very small, all obovate-oblong, clawed. 

 Stamens about 10 ; filaments short. Female sepals 6, unequal, obovate- 

 oblong, ficute or acuminate, 3 inner considerably larger than the 3 outer, 

 or sometimes 5, unequal, the 2 outer small, the 2 inner large, the other 

 midway in size and position. Petals .■», oblong-lanceolate, clawed, rather 

 shorter- than the outer sepals. Ovary closely beset with narrow-subulate 

 gland-tipped processes. Capsule muricate and setose, J in, wide; 

 accrescent sepals Vo-J i"- *o"K- ^eeds tawny or brownish, spherical. — 

 Miill. Arg, in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 754 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 237. 

 C. castaneo'fdia, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. '.)9, not of St. 

 Hil. C. serrata, Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, 237, not of Presl. C. 

 Jlstulosa and 0. hirteUa, J^eillein Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. Mem. viii. 73. 

 Upper Guinea. Frencli Guinea: Middle Nijrt'i-; Cotaga, Chevalier, W^^ \ 

 between Sebi and Mopti, Chevalier, 15763! Southern Nifjeri;! : La^os ; Idufu, 

 Rowland! Canieroons: neur Diangey, 1000 ft., Ledermamt, 4456! Sideri on 

 the River Remie, 1000 ft., Ledermann, 4729 ! between Gariia and Binti, 1000 ft., 

 Ledermann, 4810 ! near (Jarna, 1000 ft., Ledermann, 4980! 

 N-ortli Central. Hiigirmi: Tchekna, Chevalier, 5\\\ 



Mozamb. Bistr. German East Africa: Nyika Pl>«teau ; between Mtindi and 

 Mkeinba. Volketts, 37! Port\iguese Kast Africa: l^ower Zambesi; Sena, Peterx, 

 272! Nliandoii, Le Testu., 4A\\ and without precise \ocK\\ty, Stewart ! Lower 

 Shire; Moramballa Mountain, Kirk! Giiiumba, 6'ro^^ .' British Central Afiica: 

 Nyasaland; near Kondowe, Whyte ! Mount Mlangi, Last! Rhodesia: without 

 precise locality, Allen, 443! 



Also in South America, in Madagascar, and in South Africo. 

 We follow Miiller in identifying this African plant with the South American 

 C palustris, and think it may be only an introduced species. Tlie Bozos obtain 

 from the stems a fibre which is used to make tishiuf^ lines. 



5, C. senegalensis. Mull. Arg, in Linmea, xxxiv. 153. An 

 annual herb ; stems branching, rather slender, hispid upwards, 

 1^-3 ft. high. Leaves short-petioled, narrow-lanceolate or linear, 

 acute^ margin sharply and remotely serrate, sometimes subentire, 

 narrowed to the base or cuneate, 2-6 in. long, J-J in. wide, pale 

 green, glabrous above, sparingly hispid on the nerves beneath ; 

 main-nerves 10-12 (m each side, rather prominent, beneath; petiole 

 \-\ in. long ; stipules linear, hispid, caducous. Racemes 3|-G in. 

 long ; rhachis and pedicels glandular-hispid ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 

 small. Alale sepals 5, ovate-triangular, acute, pubescent. Petals 5, 



